Vasuda Giri does not think of the future as a magical place where all her dreams will one day come true. She doesn’t have to because, every morning she takes a few deep breaths and begins the life of her dreams. In her twenties, she is no different from many of her friends who want […]
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Month: May 2015
Not Human Enough?
In 1982, my mother was hit by a truck on her way to the school where she taught. The driver fled and a man who was driving a jeep, thankfully stopped, picked her up and brought her to the hospital and then somehow found a way to get in touch with us. I remember being […]
Feminine Tales From Pakistan
While Indian television continues to swim in recycled cliches, Pakistan since the seventies, has been enriched by its emotive and powerful women story tellers. Most notably Haseena Moin who wrote great dramas and scripts for the stage, radio and television and is till date considered a pathbreaker. Some of her popular dramas include Ankahi, […]
Why Strong Is The New Pretty
Body shaming is officially being shamed now. From men breaking away from the sculpted stereotypes peddled in ads to show off their ‘dad bods’ to model Chrissy Teigen tweeting an image of her stretch marks and inspiring hundreds of women to post images of their post-pregnancy bodies. To ‘mom bods’ with their saggy bellies and […]
The Music Of Togetherness
Musicians Roopkumar Rathod and Sunali Rathod celebrated 25 years of togetherness last December and his voice softens as he says, “It is music that brought us together…the music that we eat and breathe. And the music that we live for and will die for together. But a relationship needs nurturing, compromises, space and unconditional support. […]
Nepal: A Pictorial Love Story
In August 2012, actor and travel photographer Kunal Karan Kapoor travelled to Nepal with the team of his daily soap Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha. The crew spent over 10 days in and around the buzzing colours and heritage sites of Kathmandu and Kunal captured the rolling clouds, the valleys, the majestic structures […]
Vikas Khanna: Shaken & Stirred
Award-winning, Michelin starred chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer Vikas Khanna is back with a new book, Shaken & Stirred. This one celebrates the magic of mocktails and Khanna was in town to share a few mixology tricks and to interact with fans and the media. We pinned him down for a chat about his life and […]
Piku: Ray Would Have Approved
Satyajit Ray would have approved (if you disregard the product placements). Shoojit Sarkar goes back to his roots literally and cinematically with Piku, a film about nothing in particular when it trundles, carrying a baggage of eccentricity and family history from Delhi to Kolkata in a taxi. But in retrospect, it is about the little […]
The Great Goan Vacation
It is surprising how just three days of bone warming sun, soft sand, towering palm trees and chilled breezers with friends who have shared over a decade of my life, can expunge a couple of years of world-weariness. Which is why after a long hiatus, the first thing I felt compelled to write was a […]
Forgiving the Unforgivable
When South-African sporting legend Oscar Pistorius’ trial post the tragic and gruesome murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp turned into a television soap opera, I remember thinking just how ironic is it that the word, ‘icon’ has also the word ‘con’ in it. How truth about guilt does not matter as long as the perception […]
The Other World
In this quiet corner of the Northern hemisphere, where I am currently living, spring is just a metaphor. There is no warm sun, no green foliage and of course, no scented breeze. The roads and buildings never recover from the winter gloom. seriously, by the time they manage to peel off a layer of gray, the winter arrives with […]
A Story Of Deathless Love
When Ophelia scatters bits of her sanity with a bunch of flowers in a final heartbreaking farewell to the world where her father has been killed by the man she loves; when Devdas breathes his last, his gaze transfixed upon a gate that will never afford him a glimpse of the woman he has destroyed […]